Chris Hedemark on Thu, 27 Feb 2003 06:10:34 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] GnuPG 1.2.1 trustdb checks for every pubkey import?


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On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 11:31 PM, Walt Mankowski wrote:

Yes, it's also my impression that this is a cpu-bound process, too.  I
really don't understand what it could possibly be doing that it could
suck up the cpu of a modern machine for over a minute.  You'd think
this would be a fairly simple tree traversal algorithm we all learned
back in our computer science classes.

[gambusia:~] chrish% time gpg --check-trustdb gpg: checking at depth 0 signed=4 ot(-/q/n/m/f/u)=0/0/0/0/0/1 gpg: checking at depth 1 signed=9 ot(-/q/n/m/f/u)=1/0/0/0/3/0 gpg: checking at depth 2 signed=29 ot(-/q/n/m/f/u)=2/0/0/1/6/0 gpg: checking at depth 3 signed=7 ot(-/q/n/m/f/u)=14/0/0/0/2/0 gpg: next trustdb check due at 2003-04-11 0.380u 0.080s 0:00.63 73.0% 0+0k 0+1io 0pf+0w [gambusia:~] chrish%

Granted my web of trust is not in the same league as Gabe's, and I've got an 800MHz G4 PPC to his 300MHz G3.

Chris Hedemark
PGP/GnuPG Public Key at http://yonderway.com/chris/hedemark.gpg
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